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6 - Healthy Body

Diet and Exercise

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 November 2021

Gavin Brookes
Affiliation:
Lancaster University
Paul Baker
Affiliation:
Lancaster University
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Summary

This chapter analyses the discourse surrounding four words that are frequent and statistically salient across all sections of the press: healthy, body, diet and exercise. Through these foci, the analysis explores how the press constructs a link between health and not having obesity, as well as how individuals are implored to eradicate their obesity and reduce their risk of obesity by regarding their bodies as entities that are separate to their selves and subjecting their bodies to gruelling treatment, including through extreme diets and intense exercise regimes. This chapter questions which of the weight loss methods widely reported across the press are likely to engender weight loss in readers and, more importantly, whether or not they are likely to encourage healthy attitudes towards the body and the self.

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Obesity in the News
Language and Representation in the Press
, pp. 146 - 175
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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  • Healthy Body
  • Gavin Brookes, Lancaster University, Paul Baker, Lancaster University
  • Book: Obesity in the News
  • Online publication: 16 November 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108864732.006
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  • Healthy Body
  • Gavin Brookes, Lancaster University, Paul Baker, Lancaster University
  • Book: Obesity in the News
  • Online publication: 16 November 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108864732.006
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  • Healthy Body
  • Gavin Brookes, Lancaster University, Paul Baker, Lancaster University
  • Book: Obesity in the News
  • Online publication: 16 November 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108864732.006
Available formats
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